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A companion to Catalan cult...
The tragic fate of the millenary personality of Catalonia has rarely been fully appreciated abroad. Since the early eighteenth century its national voice has been submerged and fractured by a centralist state intent on its arbitrary, unitarian vision of a homogenized Spain. Catalan difference has emerged sporadically in the persons of such irrepressible geniuses as Gaudí, Dalí, Miró and Bigas Luna but, in the configuration of modern Europe, the relentlessinevitability of the unified state has imposed and re-imposed its singular cultural voice. The present volume attempts to equip the English-speaking reader with a fuller understanding of the uniqueness and quality of the culture of Catalonia by providing a comprehensive portfolio of the creative contribution of the nation across a broad spectrum of achievement. Though the artistic wealth of the medieval period is acknowledged appropriately, this study, with its focus on the modern age, privileges excellence not only in the more conventional, academic spheres of history, music, language, literature and the arts but also explores the value of more basic, popular experience inareas such as sport, cinema, festivals, cuisine and the city of Barcelona. DOMINIC KEOWN is Reader in Catalan at the University of Cambridge. CONTRIBUTORS: Elisenda Barbé, Robert Davidson, Alexander Ibarz, Louise Johnson, Dominic Keown, Tess Knighton, Jaume Martí-Olivella, Dorothy Noyes, Montserrat Roser i Puig, Antoni Segura, Miquel Strubell
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monografia Rebiun30701445 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun30701445 m o d cr |n||||||||| 211024s2011 enkabf ob 001 0 eng d 1280106976 1280195179 9781800105249 electronic bk.) 180010524X electronic bk.) 9781855662278 1855662272 AU@ 000070326435 CBUC 991000845910606712 CBUC 991010754515706709 22573/ctv24s5sf1 JSTOR YDX eng YDX JSTOR HTM OCLCF N$T UKAHL OCLCO CAMBR A companion to Catalan culture electronic resource] edited by Dominic Keown Catalan culture Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY Tamesis 2011 Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY Tamesis 1 online resource (x, 268 paegs) 1 online resource (x, 268 paegs) Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías 293 The tragic fate of the millenary personality of Catalonia has rarely been fully appreciated abroad. Since the early eighteenth century its national voice has been submerged and fractured by a centralist state intent on its arbitrary, unitarian vision of a homogenized Spain. Catalan difference has emerged sporadically in the persons of such irrepressible geniuses as Gaudí, Dalí, Miró and Bigas Luna but, in the configuration of modern Europe, the relentlessinevitability of the unified state has imposed and re-imposed its singular cultural voice. The present volume attempts to equip the English-speaking reader with a fuller understanding of the uniqueness and quality of the culture of Catalonia by providing a comprehensive portfolio of the creative contribution of the nation across a broad spectrum of achievement. Though the artistic wealth of the medieval period is acknowledged appropriately, this study, with its focus on the modern age, privileges excellence not only in the more conventional, academic spheres of history, music, language, literature and the arts but also explores the value of more basic, popular experience inareas such as sport, cinema, festivals, cuisine and the city of Barcelona. DOMINIC KEOWN is Reader in Catalan at the University of Cambridge. CONTRIBUTORS: Elisenda Barbé, Robert Davidson, Alexander Ibarz, Louise Johnson, Dominic Keown, Tess Knighton, Jaume Martí-Olivella, Dorothy Noyes, Montserrat Roser i Puig, Antoni Segura, Miquel Strubell Catalanes- Ethnic identity Catalanes- Ethnic identity Civilization Manners and customs Catalonia (Spain)- Social life and customs Catalonia (Spain)- History Catalonia (Spain)- Civilization Catalogne (Espagne)- Murs et coutumes Catalogne (Espagne)- Histoire Spain- Catalonia Electronic books History Keown, Dominic Print version 9781855662278 1855662272 (DLC) 2011282911 (OCoLC)657601453 Colección Támesis. Serie A Monografías 293